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STUNNING! NASA James Webb Space Telescope snaps ice giant Uranus
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STUNNING! NASA James Webb Space Telescope snaps ice giant Uranus

[ad_1] Our solar system comprises eight planets and the images of every planet is amazing to look at. Now, following in the footsteps of the Neptune image released in 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the solar system's other ice giant, the planet Uranus. The new image features dramatic rings as well as bright features in the planet's atmosphere."The Webb data demonstrates the observatory's unprecedented sensitivity for the faintest dusty rings, which have only ever been imaged by two other facilities: the Voyager 2 spacecraft as it flew past the planet in 1986, and the Keck Observatory with advanced adaptive optics," NASA said in a statement. Why is Uranus uniqueThe seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus is unique. Want to know why? It rotates on its si...